National Police and Unissula Cooperate on Legal Studies for the Protection of Women and Children and Against Human Trafficking

The National Police and Universitas Islam Sultan Agung (Unissula) are strengthening cooperation on developing legal studies to support the protection of women and children (PPA) and the eradication of human trafficking offences (TPPO). The collaboration aims to reinforce scientific policing — an approach to law enforcement supported by scholarly research, empirical data and academic recommendations.

This was discussed when Deputy Chief of the National Police, Commissioner General Dedi Prasetyo, received a visit from the Rector of Universitas Islam Sultan Agung, Prof Dr Gunarto, together with the Faculty of Law leadership. Representatives of the Sultan Agung Waqf Board Foundation (YBW-SA) were also present at National Police Headquarters in Jakarta on Wednesday (8/7/2026).

Commissioner General Dedi said the cooperation has been in place since 29 November 2025, when the Police Studies Centre of the Faculty of Law at Universitas Islam Sultan Agung was inaugurated in Semarang. The inauguration was attended in person by the then Head of the National Police Education and Training Institute, Commissioner General Chrysnanda Dwilaksana.

The Unissula Police Studies Centre serves as a space for academic collaboration in developing police science and public policy. This meeting was therefore intended to advance legal studies specifically in the field of the protection of women and children. "Protecting women and children and eradicating human trafficking is a shared responsibility.

Law enforcement must be reinforced by scholarly study so that every policy taken is genuinely data-based, able to identify the root of the problem, strengthen prevention, improve the quality of investigations and provide optimal protection to victims," Dedi said.

To that end, Dedi said, all relevant parties need to coordinate in handling the illegal dispatch of Indonesian citizens abroad, since it carries the risk of exploitation and trafficking in persons.

"The results of academic study will form an important part of strengthening policy formulation and the National Police's law enforcement strategy," he said.

The Director of the Women, Children and Human Trafficking Directorate of the Criminal Investigation Agency, Brigadier General Nurul Azizah, said that the trend in such cases shows a significant increase, with the characteristics of the crimes becoming ever more complex.

"Cases involving the protection of women and children and human trafficking keep evolving with various new methods that exploit digital technology, social media and non-procedural migration routes. Handling them therefore cannot be done piecemeal. What is needed is stronger legal study, greater investigator capacity, collaboration across ministries and agencies, and support from the academic world so that prevention, law enforcement and victim protection proceed comprehensively," Nurul said.

She added that the Directorate continues to strengthen national coordination in handling these cases, including through the development of task forces and cooperation with regional and district police, ministries, agencies and universities to strengthen evidence-based policy.

Meanwhile, the Rector of Unissula, Prof Gunarto, said that strengthening this cooperation reflects Unissula's commitment as a strategic partner of the National Police, particularly as the partnership has been running for some time.

"Since the establishment of the Police Studies Centre in 2025, Unissula has been committed to making a real contribution to the development of police science. By strengthening this cooperation, we will make the most of the academic capacity of the Faculty of Law together with our other scholarly networks to produce legal studies and applicable policy recommendations that strengthen the protection of women and children and the eradication of human trafficking," Gunarto said.

He added that universities have a responsibility to ensure that research findings do not stop at being scholarly works, but can be translated into recommendations that support the drafting of regulations, the refinement of policy and the strengthening of law enforcement practice.

Gunarto expressed the hope that this collaboration will produce strategic recommendations capable of strengthening the system for protecting women and children and improving the effectiveness of efforts against human trafficking. It is also intended to enrich the implementation of scientific policing and to serve as a reference in formulating law enforcement policy that is more adaptive, humane and grounded in scientific evidence, so as to provide better protection to the public.